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The promise is that providers can build one package for all Linux distros, Afaik. Less work for packagers. More packages for obscure distros.
by qznc 6y ago
The promise is that providers can build one package for all Linux distros, Afaik. Less work for packagers. More packages for obscure distros.
- regularfry 6y ago"Less work" undersells it, in my opinion. What snap (and things like it) do is promise to remove the support headache upstream providers get from users still using a version that was current 5 years ago which happened to make it into an LTS distro release because that happened to be the most recent build a packager had working at the time.
- AlexandrB 6y agoLove it when vendors shift their responsibilities onto users. Silently updating some piece of software on that 5-year-old LTS release might break the workflows of hundreds of people. But it's all good! It saves the vendor some "support headaches".